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Under the supervision of the Program Director the Assistant Program Director will provide supervision of Case Management services to ensure quality care for young adults that have experienced Homelessness and Mental Illness. In the absence of the Program Director the Assistant Program Director will supervises all program staff in conjunction with the Regional Director.
Job Functions:
- Familiar with Federal, State and Local laws and regulations as they apply to the community residence program and agency policies
- Familiar with OMH regulations
- Direct supervision of all program staff with regard to Case Management
- Development and implementation of individual client service plans in conjunction with clinical staff, counseling team and client
- The Program Director is responsible for insuring that contracts with clients reflect goals of service plans for assisting counselors to develop intervention goals and activities which support the service plan
- Coordinates Annual Functional Assessment Review for each client, submitting report and recommendations to Utilization Review Committee.
- Responsible for maintaining contact with other service agencies and insuring client placement for treatment and program activities (may include volunteer job placement)
- Responsible for coordination with Intake Coordinator of orientation and transitioning in to program of all new residents
- Participates in discharge planning
- Provides emergency and relief coverage as necessary
- May represent agency with community groups and agencies
- Prepares report for Regional Director of Behavioral Health Services and VP of Behavioral Health Services, including any problems, and proposals for changes in policies or program design
- Provides supervisory meetings with all staff and maintains documentation of these meetings
- Additional duties as requested from time to time by the Regional Director
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In this position you will;
- Provide programs and events that encourage engagement and socialization to help support high quality of life for our residents
- Arrange meetings with interested individual resident and/or groups, to identify their recreational interest and needs, to plan and implement recreational programs that meet the residents' present level of functioning
- Motivate individuals and groups to become involved in the recreation program by participating in and leading specific activities and events
- Plan, organize, promote, implement, and supervise monthly life enrichment activities calendar for community
- Ensure a variety of recreational, social, cultural, educational and entertainment programs are planned and implemented, applicable to all ages, mainly for the elders
- Prepare and post promotional and advertising materials for monthly program activities including calendars and/or bulletins
- Daily and quarterly documentation of residents' participation in programs and progress notes according to monthly calendar schedule, to assure resident’s progress
- Planned activities must be able to contribute to the documentation process including, but not limited to: assessments, progress notes, and care plan, in addition to, participate in monthly care conferences
- Provide monthly and yearly reports around recreation program goals, opportunities and/or improvements
- Research recreation programs funding sources and project requirements
- Coordinate transportation of residents to and from events outside of the community, which may include driving an agency motor vehicle.
- Any other duties as assigned by the Program Director, Designee or as required.
ABILITY REQUIREMENTS:
- Ability to plan, organize, motivate, lead, and promote a variety of recreational activities year round, indoors and outdoors, for different age groups with diverse interests
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and rapport with employees, supervisors and the general public of all ages
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing; answering questions and keeping individuals motivated
- Ability to group problem-solving and able to fix situations quickly, and/or adjust activities for all involved
- Ability to frequently walk and sit when leading various recreational activities
- Ability to perform other related duties as required
- Ability to work flexible shift including weekends as assigned
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The Peer Specialist ensures the quality of care for consumers who are living with mental health problems, and provides harm reduction outreach and case management services.
Responsibilities:
- Interface with representatives from Probation/ Parole in order to encourage consumer compliance with requirements and facilitate communication.
- Act as an advocate for consumers as appropriate; encourage and support self- advocacy.
- Develop and facilitate a peer support group for agency consumers.
- Develop, with consumers, individualized strategies for reducing the negative consequences of drug use and not taking medication for mental illness.
- Provide outreach intervention and referral services through the distribution of materials, information, education and prevention messages to consumers in their homes and/or in group settings.
- Promote problem solving and decision making skill development, particularly in the areas of drug use, sexual risk reduction, and medical treatment.
Benefits Overview: We offer attractive compensation with comprehensive benefits including: Medical/Dental/Prescription/Vision/Life Insurance;403(b); Credit Union; FSAs; Short-and-Long-Term Disability; Transportation Plan; Generous Paid Vacations and Holidays
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Under the supervision of the Program Director, the Residential Aide provides shift coverage, with possibility of flexible, rotating shift schedule, and weekend coverage.
KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Provide direct crisis intervention to clients and prepares incident reports of such interventions.
- Monitor client when they are taking their medication if necessary.
- Inform staff of any prescriptions given to client that must be filled (especially 12am-8am and weekend shifts).
- Brief incoming shifts of status of the facility (which includes all clients in and out of facility).
- Give verbal and written warnings to clients and hand out appropriate consequences such as extra chores, removal of store and telephone privileges.
- Inform treatment staff of any concerns via an entry in communication logbook or a note in treatment staff mailbox.
- Make copies of forms to be utilize for store passes, cigarette distribution, meal checklists, etc.
- Serve as staff escort when necessary.
- Partake in educational training to enhance skills related to job function
- Performs various other tasks and responsibilities (i.e. facilitate morning/evening focus group
- participate in staff meetings as required
- Provide coverage in the cafeteria during meal times, monitor the client bed area and remove any unnecessary items in accordance with DHS rules
- Coordinate and oversee morning/dispatches, petty cash (tokens, carfare, and lunch and dinner money) and escorts for clients as assigned and needed.
- Hourly house/room rounds and recording of time and findings in communications logbook on all shifts.
- Keep supervisor informed of all relevant information regarding the residents and the program.
- Other duties as requested by supervisor
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The Care Coordinator will assume the care coordination responsibility for Chronically Ill clients identified from the NYS DOH (New York State Department of Health) list of high end users of Medicaid. Many of these clients will also have a co occurring disorder of mental illness and/or substance abuse. They will conduct Community outreach to CIDP clients to enroll potential clients who are identified by the NYS DOH. They will be expected to provide care management and coordination of the plan of care for this specified population in need of intensive case management including health education and advocacy. They will also provide intensive care coordination in a medical setting to include illness management. Travel is required; 80%.
Responsibilities:
- Help find, engage, and enroll clients from the NYS DOH list of eligible Brooklyn and Manhattan Medicaid beneficiaries who have chronic illness and possible mental illness and or substance abuse
- Assure that clients reliably attend medical appointments at outpatient clinics
- Assure that clients comply with prescription regiment
- Write clear service plans and progress notes and maintain meticulous documentation of service visits
- Provide services in the Clinical Home and in the community
- Carry a caseload of clients, each of which is to be visited once and at least one service provided during the course of a calendar month
- Coordinate ancillary care for clients to ensure continuous, comprehensive care
- Collaborate with all members of the team, primary care and specialty doctors and all partners on a regular basis
- Initiate appropriate referrals to additional services including home care and notify appropriate support staff of referral to ensure authorization
- Assist clients to obtain access to transportation
- Research, evaluate and recommend community resources to meet non medical needs of client (i.e. alternative resource programs, support groups and community support services.)
- Work with Medical Home team inpatient providers, discharge planners and nurse partners to ensure efficient use of inpatient resources and a timely discharge to an appropriate setting
- Facilitate and participate in client care conference for medical and peer review
- Collaborate with mental heath and substance abuse care providers to ensure coordination of all services and integration of services
- Work collaboratively with the ValueOptions Field Care Coordinator to provide and link clients to services that facilitate illness management
- Provide verbal and written illness management educational protocols
- Immediately reports serious incidents, serious incident allegations, incidents, or sensitive situations to supervisors. Completes incident reports in accordance with CIDP policy
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The Wellness Coach provides quality support services to tenants, addressing and coordinating access to resources for their educational, psychological, vocational, and recreational needs.
Responsibilities:
- Provide case management, crisis intervention and advocacy for tenants
- Collaborate with tenant in development of goals and corresponding plan
- Provide accurate, complete and timely documentation of social service records including service plans, reports and progress notes
- Asses needs and make appropriate referrals
- Participate in tenants meetings
- Assist Senior Housing Generalist – Substance Abuse Counselor with support groups
- Identify and coordinate community based resources and organization for supportive Services for the Underserved
- Assist with tenant evacuation during fire drills and emergencies
- Provide recreation, money management and other hands on assistance with activities of daily living i.e. medication reminders as needed
- Report building issues to program director and superintendent
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The Peer Specialist ensures the quality of care for consumers who are living with mental health problems, and provides harm reduction outreach and case management services.
Responsibilities:
- Interface with representatives from Probation/ Parole in order to encourage consumer compliance with requirements and facilitate communication.
- Act as an advocate for consumers as appropriate; encourage and support self- advocacy.
- Develop and facilitate a peer support group for agency consumers.
- Develop, with consumers, individualized strategies for reducing the negative consequences of drug use and not taking medication for mental illness.
- Provide outreach intervention and referral services through the distribution of materials, information, education and prevention messages to consumers in their homes and/or in group settings.
- Promote problem solving and decision making skill development, particularly in the areas of drug use, sexual risk reduction, and medical treatment.
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The Care Coordinator will assume the care coordination responsibility for Chronically Ill clients identified from the NYS DOH (New York State Department of Health) list of high end users of Medicaid. Many of these clients will also have a co occurring disorder of mental illness and/or substance abuse. They will conduct Community outreach to CIDP clients to enroll potential clients who are identified by the NYS DOH. They will be expected to provide care management and coordination of the plan of care for this specified population in need of intensive case management including health education and advocacy. They will also provide intensive care coordination in a medical setting to include illness management. Travel is required; 80%.
Responsibilities:
- Help find, engage, and enroll clients from the NYS DOH list of eligible Brooklyn and Manhattan Medicaid beneficiaries who have chronic illness and possible mental illness and or substance abuse
- Assure that clients reliably attend medical appointments at outpatient clinics
- Assure that clients comply with prescription regiment
- Write clear service plans and progress notes and maintain meticulous documentation of service visits
- Provide services in the Clinical Home and in the community
- Carry a caseload of clients, each of which is to be visited once and at least one service provided during the course of a calendar month
- Coordinate ancillary care for clients to ensure continuous, comprehensive care
- Collaborate with all members of the team, primary care and specialty doctors and all partners on a regular basis
- Initiate appropriate referrals to additional services including home care and notify appropriate support staff of referral to ensure authorization
- Assist clients to obtain access to transportation
- Research, evaluate and recommend community resources to meet non medical needs of client (i.e. alternative resource programs, support groups and community support services.)
- Work with Medical Home team inpatient providers, discharge planners and nurse partners to ensure efficient use of inpatient resources and a timely discharge to an appropriate setting
- Facilitate and participate in client care conference for medical and peer review
- Collaborate with mental heath and substance abuse care providers to ensure coordination of all services and integration of services
- Work collaboratively with the ValueOptions Field Care Coordinator to provide and link clients to services that facilitate illness management
- Provide verbal and written illness management educational protocols
- Immediately reports serious incidents, serious incident allegations, incidents, or sensitive situations to supervisors. Completes incident reports in accordance with CIDP policy
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The Wellness Coach works independently in the field with people of diverse ethnicities, backgrounds and preferences who have a mental illness and are living in the community, primarily, in single and scatter-site apartment and SRO housing. The Wellness Coach will develop and monitor individual service plans in conjunction with agency consumers, identify and document any issues in daily living skills. Play a significant role as a member of the social service team in the development of off-site recreation, socialization, educational and skill building activities with a view towards community inclusion and integration. Participation in ongoing individual and group supervision, team meetings, case conferences, division meetings and trainings is required.
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The Wellness Coach works independently in the field, and as part of a rehabilitation services delivery team, with people of diverse ethnicities, backgrounds and preferences who have a mental illness and are living in the community, primarily, in single and scatter-site apartment and SRO housing.
Responsibilities:
- Engage people with mental illness and assist them in meeting the demands of community living and maintaining their housing by teaching them the necessary skills, and linking them to services that will support their recovery, independence and self-determination
- Conduct Group Meetings on Wellness Management
- Complete service plan reviews for all residents
- Regularly assess, correct and report apartment and personal living space inspections conditions as assigned
- Provide Case Management for residents, engage residents in setting rehabilitation and housing support goals, and collaborate with them in developing a Housing Support Plan where indicated.
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The Senior Wellness Coach will;
- Provide case management, crisis intervention and advocacy for tenants
- Collaborate with tenant in development of goals and corresponding plan
- Provideaccurate, complete and timely documentation of social service records including service plans, reports and progress notes
- Assess needs and make appropriate referrals
- Participate in tenant meetings
- Develop and facilitate Substance Abuse and other Wellness groups
- Provide supervision of case management activities of Housing Generalist
- Identify and coordinate community based resources and organization for supportive Services for the Underserved
- Assist with tenant evacuation during fire drills and emergencies
- Provide recreation, money management and other hands on assistance with activities of daily living i.e. medication reminders as needed
- Report building issues to program director and superintendent
- Additional tasks as assigned by Program Director
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Seeking a Registered Nurse to work on NY State Office of Mental Health (OMH) funded care team of mental health professionals assisting clients in transition from hospitals back to the community. The team will follow individuals into the community using the evidence-based Critical Time Intervention model of care to ensure that they become both linked and engaged with identified community providers and that their support network is sufficient to meet their needs. The Registered Nurse is responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems through such services as medical case management, referrals, health teaching (this might include group education) and counseling. The nurse will provide interventions supportive to or restorative of life and well-being; and execute medical regimens prescribed by a physician, PNP or another licensed health care provider. The role will require limited on call coverage (week of emergency phone coverage, every 7 to 8 weeks).
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The Wellness Coach works independently in the field, and as part of a rehabilitation services delivery team, with people of diverse ethnicities, backgrounds and preferences who have a mental illness and are living in the community, primarily, in single and scatter-site apartment and SRO housing.
Essential Job Functions
- Adjust resident’s goals, objectives, methods, and target dates as necessary
- Complete service plan reviews on a quarterly basis for all residents, with the initial review occurring three months from the date of admission.
- Ensure the uniformity of all case recordsWork independently in the field, and as a team member to ensure the safety and well-being of all residents
- Regularly assess, correct and report apartment and personal living space inspections conditions as assigned
- Facilitate resident empowerment committees/activities
- Assist residents with the safe handling of food and preparation of meals as needed
- Assist residents in the organization and maintenance of their apartments and common areas.
- Participate in a 24/7 crisis response rotation, as indicated
- Adhere diligently to all life-safety policies and procedures Perform all duties in a manner that is appreciative of residents’ strengths and supportive of their continued recovery.
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The Peer Specialistwill be expected to meet with individuals on a monthly basis, document the face to face engagement, including progress notes and other clinical documentation. They will assist with completing apartment inspections, facilitate support groups, accompanies individuals to appointments and actively participates in efforts to improve the organization.
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The Wellness Coach works independently in the field, and as part of a rehabilitation services delivery team, with people of diverse ethnicities, backgrounds and preferences who have a mental illness and are living in the community, primarily, in single and scatter-site apartment and SRO housing.
Responsibilities:
- Engage people with mental illness and assist them in meeting the demands of community living and maintaining their housing by teaching them the necessary skills, and linking them to services that will support their recovery, independence and self-determination
- Conduct Group Meetings on Wellness Management
- Complete service plan reviews for all residents
- Regularly assess, correct and report apartment and personal living space inspections conditions as assigned
- Provide Case Management for residents, engage residents in setting rehabilitation and housing support goals, and collaborate with them in developing a Housing Support Plan where indicated.
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Are you looking for a company that is recognized for bringing positive change to the underserved community? Then come join the SUS family! We offer a rewarding careers, outstanding benefits, work-life balance and the opportunity to serve others. We are look for passionate Residential Aides to work in in our shelter programs, providing services that include: driving program vehicle to drop off and pick up shelter residents, assist with cleaning facility and the nightly count. The Residential Aide is also responsible for packing client belongings for move outs, transfers and curfew violators.
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Are you looking for a company that is recognized for bringing positive change to the underserved community? Then come join the SUS family! We offer a rewarding careers, outstanding benefits, work-life balance and the opportunity to serve others. We are look for passionate Residential Aides to work in in our shelter programs, providing services that include: driving program vehicle to drop off and pick up shelter residents, assist with security of the facility and the nightly count. The Residential Aide is also responsible for coordinating client move outs, transfers and curfew violators.
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The Wellness Coach works independently in the field with people of diverse ethnicities, backgrounds and preferences who have a mental illness and are living in the community, primarily, in single and scatter-site apartment and SRO housing. The Wellness Coach will develop and monitor individual service plans in conjunction with agency consumers, identify and document any issues in daily living skills. Play a significant role as a member of the social service team in the development of off-site recreation, socialization, educational and skill building activities with a view towards community inclusion and integration. Participation in ongoing individual and group supervision, team meetings, case conferences, division meetings and trainings is required.
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The Peer Specialist ensures the quality of care for consumers who are living with mental health problems, and provides harm reduction outreach and case management services.
Responsibilities:
- Interface with representatives from Probation/ Parole in order to encourage consumer compliance with requirements and facilitate communication.
- Act as an advocate for consumers as appropriate; encourage and support self- advocacy.
- Develop and facilitate a peer support group for agency consumers.
- Develop, with consumers, individualized strategies for reducing the negative consequences of drug use and not taking medication for mental illness.
- Provide outreach intervention and referral services through the distribution of materials, information, education and prevention messages to consumers in their homes and/or in group settings.
- Promote problem solving and decision making skill development, particularly in the areas of drug use, sexual risk reduction, and medical treatment.
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The Wellness Coach works independently in the field, and as part of a rehabilitation services delivery team, with people of diverse ethnicities, backgrounds and preferences who have a mental illness and are living in the community, primarily, in single and scatter-site apartment and SRO housing.
Responsibilities:
- Engage people with mental illness and assist them in meeting the demands of community living and maintaining their housing by teaching them the necessary skills, and linking them to services that will support their recovery, independence and self-determination
- Conduct Group Meetings on Wellness Management
- Complete service plan reviews for all residents
- Regularly assess, correct and report apartment and personal living space inspections conditions as assigned
- Provide Case Management for residents, engage residents in setting rehabilitation and housing support goals, and collaborate with them in developing a Housing Support Plan where indicated.